Highlights
Wolfgang-Bonhage-MUSEUM
1,000 years of town history, exhibits from Germany's most important gold deposit and a grandiose view through windows of prehistoric times - this is how the museum brings living history to life. A tour of the museum also takes you back to the time when Korbach belonged to the Hanseatic League. The museum is partly housed in a stone chamber from Hanseatic times.
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St. Kilian Church
Parish church of the historic old town of Korbach. Gothic three-nave hall church of the Westphalian type with an almost square ground plan. The building was modelled on the Wiesenkirche in Soest. This closes a circle, because Korbach received the town charter of Soest in 1188. Soest was the Leadership city of many Westphalian Hanseatic towns, including Korbach.
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St. Nicolai Church
Parish church of the historic new town of Korbach. Gothic hall church - built 1359-1450 in the style of Hessian hall churches. Inside: Altar of the Virgin Mary by the Korbach Franciscan painter from 1518 and Baroque funerary epitaph for Prince Georg Friedrich von Waldeck. A capstone in the vaulted ceiling commemorates the important Cologne Hanseatic merchant and native of Korbach, Johann Rinck.
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Town fortifications
The historic old and new towns of Korbach are still surrounded by a well-preserved double ring of town walls with towers and gates. Idyllic half-timbered streets and several stone chambers used as warehouses in the Middle Ages are reminiscent of the Hanseatic era. The interactive circular walk "Between the Walls" tells the (hi)story of Korbach's past.
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Eisenberg Visitor Mine
The Eisenberg is Germany's richest gold deposit. As early as the Hanseatic era, gold miners searched here for the coveted precious metal. Evidence of their work can still be found today - above ground on the "Eisenberg Gold Trail" and underground in the visitor mine. Other destinations are the castle ruins and the Georg-Viktor-lookout tower on the summit of the Eisenberg.
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Korbach-Information
Prof.-Bier-Straße 15 (Fußgängerzone)
34497 Korbach
Tel. +49 (0) 5631 53-232
tourismus@korbach.de
Travel options
Korbach is located between the Eder, Diemel and Twiste reservoirs at the intersection of the B 251 (Brilon - Kassel) and B 252 (Brakel - Marburg).
Korbach is easily accessible from the Dortmund - Kassel motorway (A44) via the Diemelstadt and Zierenberg junctions.
Regional trains run to and from Kassel, Brilon and Marburg/Lahn.
The nearest airports with scheduled connections are Paderborn-Lippstadt (approx. 45 minutes), Kassel (approx. 1 hour) and Frankfurt/Main (approx. 2 hours).